, 1887-07-19
Cosby Little Paragraphs Picked Up
Throughout the City.


The Union Pacific pay car arrived last
evening and paid the railway employees.
A large force of men will soon begin to
make permanent repairs on the Union
Pacific at the scene of the recent wash.
out.
The insurance adjusters will not be able
to complete their work on Cowhick &
Whitcomb's damaged stock for five or six
days.
The Warren Mercantile company has
loaned the Y. M. G. A. y dozen fine pic
lures with which to ornament the associa-
ton rooms.
A large delegation from j. +. Rey-
nolds post, G. A. R., attended the funer
al of VIM. O'Donnell at Fort Russell Sun
day morning.
Several young Japs were on yesterday
evenings overland express. They have
been attending school at Yale and are
homeward bound.
Judge Lee disposed of five Migrants and
three DRINKS yesterday, while Judge
Fisher dealt out even-handed justice to
three swell headed inebriates.
The case of Lane VS.. Andrew Simlo,
charging the latter with malicious mis-
chief, has been arbitrated and will be set
tied without aid from judges or lawyers.
1t Is expected that Judge Corn and
United States Attorney Campbell will
arrive from the West this morning, In
which event the Mccoy case will soon be
taken up.
One of the large plate glass windows in
the Delaware block cracked yesterday,
and 100 men were soon collected in front
of the store attributing the fracture to
various causes.
Officer Dietrich attempted to arrest
thirteen tramps at the east end OF the
Union Pacific yards last night, They
broke and ran, but he succeeded in
launching four of them in the city Jail.
The books recently ordered for the
county library have arrived. They com
prise the 902 volumes recently enumerated
in THE LEADER, and will prove a valuable
addition to the collection owned by the
association.
Capt. Starring, chief ordnance officer at
Camp Carlin, who will leave for his new
post at Vancouver barracks, Washington
Territory, about the list of August, will be
succeeded by Capt. NJ. W. Lyons. who
is now stationed at WATERFOWL arsenal in
Massachusetts,.
The Alert team will leave to, morrow for
Kearney to participate in the Nebraska
state fremen's tournament. Last even
ing the boys covered 200 yards and got
water in 324 seconds. If they can do as
well at the tournament they may hope to
stand well up in the list.
The Pole Creek Land and Live Stock
company filed articles of incorporation at
the county clerk office yesterday. The
organizers Of the c%opartnership are James
A. Palmer, q. w. Riner, f P. Snow, d.
W. Fisk and N. E. Stark. They will
commence business with a paid up capital
stock of 100000.
The two colored girls now confined in
the city Jail say that life In that institu
ton is one continual round of pleasure.
One Of them remarked yesterday as she
drew about a parrel of smoke from a corn
cob pipe: 'We has lots to eat, nothin' to
do, and somebody to wait on us, and we
don't care how long it lasts.
Several Pennsylvanians who now reside
In Cheyenne called upon ex Governor
Pattison of that state, member of the Pa
clhc investigation committee, while the
party were in the city yesterday. Mr..
Pa'tison is a Democrat, and was elected
governor Of Pennsylvania by a majority of
10000 in 1885 over Beaver, the present
executive.
Milton Taylor was yesterday circulating
a petition addressed to the mayor and
city council, praying that the city ordi-
nance providing for the punishment of
landlords who allow their houses in the
west end to be occupied by lewd women
be enforced. The document was numer-
ousIy signed by leading business men. 1t
Is intended to particularly apply to the
row corner of Eighteenth and Bent
streets.
Advices were received yesterday after
noon from Prot. Davidge, who is chief of
the party of scientists from the Smith
Sohian institute now camped near Sher
man, that they would endeavor to precip-
itate IL rainfall at Cheyenne in the even
ing. AS evidenced by the storm last
night they were successful, though prob
aOIy owing to an accident to the dynamo,
considerable trouble was experienced in
guiding the clouds.
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